Racial Issues and Social Work Intervention

Brazil is located in eastern South America. In 2018, its estimated population was 208,400,000 and it is the fifth most populous country in the world. Brazil is also one of the most economically unequal countries in the world.1 This inequality is expressed by race, ethnicity and gender and also expressed differently per region in Brazil: 40 per cent of the population was categorised as socially vulnerable in the north and 40.1 per cent in the northeast, but only 11.3 per cent in the south.